I’m glad McGruder got his paper from Adult Swim. That’s well and good. But Adult Swim owes us, the viewers, for the travesty that was season four of The Boondocks. The best way they can repay the debt is to make sure McGruder gets free reign over Black Jesus.

Nah, From the looks of this trailer, they may have left McGruder to his own devices as the old web series looks like the transition to TV may work. All of the original ingredients are there: haters hating on Jesus, “winenac,” weed smoke, Charlie Murphy, shootouts, non-believers, John Witherspoon and everything else under the sun that God’s son would encounter in Compton.

“Ready your minds, open your hearts” for the August 7th premiere on Adult Swim at 11pm EST.

I haven’t watched season 4 yet, but from what Im hearing it’s a complete disaster. Season 3 had its moments, and a few episodes were absolute classics… Nothing’s f*ckin with Season 2 though, that was like Chappelle’s Show Season 2, just perfect.

Well, I’m all for it, since basically we now have trade school dropouts who just marry the first big woman that will take them and start a tax-free superpac… I mean church… without any of that troublesome responsibility for giving people a spiritual base that is not dependent on financial means. Church sucks.

Church. That is the focus of your comment. Religion separates people. If that is how folks wish to “go against” it and look at it… that is fine. But there is a difference. I have never heard nor seen this and have no desire to. It simply does not interest me.

Funny because the original comment I made had to do with the city of Compton. Take a look at the YG thread – exact same response. Compton is the reason.

Ehh, I won’t make any gross generalizations about churches without data backing it up. That said, religion is still shown to be a big force in Black communities, rural communities, and lower income communities in general. That goes even for the non-mega churches.

Honestly, if you had ever seen the old Youtube clips, and really paid attention instead of clutching your pearls you would notice that “Black Jesus” says a lot of the things the church says. He talks about belief, about how people only lean on religion in times of trouble or need, and rarely stick to it after getting what they needed, and really, at its center, the series was about how Jesus really might have been. He walked among the people. We always depict him the way we see religious authority figures, but they are about as far removed from the original spirit of Christianity as God is from Satan, soooo….

Honestly, Black Jesus doesn’t look very funny at all on any level. Talented folk involved. Corey Holcomb cracks me up like 80% of the time I see him and Aaron McGruder is one of the smartest guys I’ve ever talked to in terms of entertainment. I mean, he’s like Chris Rock smart once you get him to relax around you.

And I get that a good 15-20% of Americans are avowed Atheists according to polls and plenty more are agnostic at best.

So I think those factors alone will give Black Jesus a solid draw, if on curiosity alone.

But from what I’ve seen the show doesn’t look very smart. It seems to use stereotypes about Blackfolk and flasehoods about Christianity to push humor, which all involved are too talented and too smart to stoop to doing this for laughs.

Honesty, the most subversive thing you can do against Christianity is to challenge Christians to be Christian by Christ’s standards. Otherwise just laughing at all of it lock stock and barrell isn’t terribly brave or intellectually honest.

and it’s just bad entertainment. If nothing else we deserve a better show.

A Black person being subversive toward Christianity is definitely a pretty brave thing to do considering the intimate relationship that the Black community has with the church and how non-belief is basically conflated with worshipping Satan in our community. At the very least we need SOMETHING to balance out the Tyler Perry-based portrayal of Black spirituality lmao.

I’m with BC; I’ve watched this trailer a couple times now, and….it’s just not funny. I found it trapped in the same, tired kind of tropes of stereotypical humor too, and really, a “braver” thing would be for McGruder to take on the black “Jack and Jill” types who aspire to American whiteness, reject “low-brow” blackness, and covertly operate around the notion of class-breeding. This stuff, this “Black Jesus” mess, looks like something that would’ve been hilarious–in 1996.

‘But from what I’ve seen the show doesn’t look very smart. It seems to use stereotypes about Blackfolk and flasehoods about Christianity to push humor, which all involved are too talented and too smart to stoop to doing this for laughs.

Honesty, the most subversive thing you can do against Christianity is to challenge Christians to be Christian by Christ’s standards. Otherwise just laughing at all of it lock stock and barrell isn’t terribly brave or intellectually honest.

and it’s just bad entertainment. If nothing else we deserve a better show.”

You got a sneak peak of the show? Seen episodes already? What have you seen so far to make so many assumptions? Just asking outta curiosity.

Some of y’all have an awful lot of opinions on a show based on something you haven’t actually seen yet. I get the criticism of the trailer, if you have one, but saying what McGruder “should” do and where he should take the show…without having actually seen an episode…is a bit premature. It’s McGruder. If you’re familiar with his work, you can take a guess as to where this show is probably going to go.